Nenkovići Vlachs

Abstract

Nenkovići Vlachs lived in Ivica village located southeast of Ljubinje Herzegovina. Initially, they vere vassals of the Bosnian king, and in the 1419 the vassals of Duke Sandalj Hranić and bis nephevv Duke Stephen Vukcica, nobles froni the Kosaca family. Nenkovići Vlachs arise branching from katun of vlach Burmaz. Archival sources recorded one century of their existence since the end of 14th until the end of 15th. They vvere dealing with the usual activities: transporting goods from Dubrovnik in the interior of Bosnia, selling livestock, participating hi trade credit and road robbery of Dubrovnik merchants. Known developmental line starts 1376 with Katunar Krajslav Mrđenović. The main link in their further existence is his son Nenko Krajsalić (1398-1436), Katunar who provided a name Nenkovići. His successor was Miliša Nenković (1438). In the seventies of the 15th century Katuni Miliša brothers and Radić Bogišić belonged to Nenkovići Vlachs.